Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (2015)
NSF CAREER Award
Three Amazon Research Awards
Recent publications in top venues including RSS, ICRA, CoRL, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics, e.g., 'Map Space Belief Prediction for Manipulation-Enhanced Mapping', 'EYESIGHT: Eye Examination System with Intelligent Guidance and Human Tracking'
Background
Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Affiliate of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Director of the Coordinated Sciences Lab Robotics Group
Currently on leave from UIUC, serving as Head of Robotic Intelligence at Samsung Research America
Research interests include open-world robotics, robot motion planning and control, and semi-autonomous systems